GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE

148 GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
Driller's partial log of Cumberland Furnace wett No. 1, on Mrs. Emma Watt's
property
[No. 193, pi. 4. Well drilled by Tuxbury Oil Co. in April, 1919. Diameter at top, 10 inches; at bottom,
6J_ inches. Total depth, 1,142 feet; no water-bearing beds below 320 feet]
Feet
Cherty residual soil__________________________________ 0-52
Limestone, white, large yield of water at 150 feet_______ 52-162
Sandstone, gray, medium hard, water bearing; static
level of water 125 feet below casing head_______ _ 315-320
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)________________ 445-522
Driller's partial log of Cumberland Furnace well No. 2, on Mr. Stark's property
[No. 194, pi. 4. Well drilled in December, 1919. Diameter at top, 12J_ inches; bottom, at 6M inches.
Total depth, 1,166 feet]
Feet
Cherty residual soil_____________________________ 0-11
Limestone, bluish gray; easing set at bottom to shut out
water___________________________ 11-131
Limestone and shale, water bearing__________________ 278-285
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)________________ 300-342
Shale, brown__________________________________ 342-369
Sandstone (?), fine grained, white, contains salt water. __ 525-554
Driller's partial log of Henry and Elijah Taylor's wett
[No. 222, pi. 4. Well drilled by Tennessee Central Oil Co. in 1920. Diameter at bottom, 5Ji inches; total
depth, 1,378 feet; approximate altitude of casing head, 570 feet above sea level]
Feet
Soil________________________________ 0-10
Limestone, gray, cherty________________________ 10-109
Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)_________________ 109-114
Limestone, pink______________________________ 114-264
Limestone, bluish gray_______________________ 264-315
Limestone and shale, gray________________________ 315-440
Shale, gray________________________ 440-490
Limestone, sandy, dense_________-_______-_-_____ 490-547
Limestone, hard______________________________ 547-563
Limestone_____________________________ 563-700
Shale, gray_______________________'_____ 700-750
Limestone, hard, brown to gray.__________________ 750-925
Limestone, cherty_______________________________ 925-953
Limestone, dark olive-green; contains salt water____ 1, 373-1, 378
HOUSTON COUNTY
[Area, 197 square miles. Population, 5,555]
GENERAL FEATURES
Houston County is a rather sparsely settled rural area that lies in
the west-central part of the region described in this report. (See pi.
1, p. 24.) Its county seat, Erin (population 819), is on the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad near the west edge of the Wells Creek Valley.
Houston County is a part of the Highland Rim plateau (pp. 16-18),
although its surface has been so intricately and so deeply dissected by
tributaries of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers as to bear little